EARLY HISTORY OF WHALING 83 



followeth, videlicet, Juan de Bacoyne, Juan de 

 Agerre, Martin de Karre, Marsene de Horisada, 

 Domingo de Sarria and Adam de Bellocke." 

 Edge was warned to use them " very kindely and 

 friendly during this their yoyage," but at the same 

 time to omit no opportunity of learning " that 

 businesse of striking the whale, as well as they." 

 " And likewise to know the better sorts of whales 

 from the worser, whereby in their striking they may 

 choose the good, and leave the bad." 



The kinds of whales, eight in number, are next 

 enumerated. 



' The first sort of whales is called the Bearded 

 Whale, which is black in colour, with a smooth 

 skinne, and white under the chops ; which whales is 

 the best of all the rest ; and the elder it is, the more 

 it doth yield. This sort of whale doth yeelde 

 usually four hundred, and some five hundred finnes, 

 and between one hundred and one hundred and 

 twenty hogsheads of oyle." Obviously this is the 

 Greenland Right Whale. 



1 The second sort of whale is called Sarda, of the 

 same colour and fashion as the former, but some 

 % what lesse, and the fins not above one fathom long, 

 and yeeldeth in oyle, according to his bignesse, 

 sometimes eightie, sometimes a hundred hogsheads." 

 This whale is the " Nordcaper." 



' The third sort of whale is called Trumpa, being 

 as long as the first, but not so thicke, of colour grey, 

 having but one trunke in his head, whereas the 

 former have two. He hath in his mouth teeth of a 



